Mount Nemrut: The Story Behind Turkey’s Giant Stone Heads
The faces are what you notice first. Enormous stone heads rest beneath the open sky, their features catching the light while the mountain fa...
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UNESCO: Stories & Places to Explore
Explore Meteora with a practical guide to its six active monasteries, viewpoints, walking plans and a thoughtful one- or two-day visit in Greece. Explore Kaiping’s diaolou towers, their links to overseas Chinese communities and how to plan a village visit that goes beyond photographs.
Start with Meteora Travel Guide: Monasteries, Views and a Slower Visit and Kaiping Diaolou: Towers, Villages and a Different China Trip.
Chichén Itzá: El Castillo and the City Beyond the Pyramid
El Castillo rises from an open clearing with such a strong silhouette that it can seem to stand for all of Chichén Itzá. It is a magnificent...
Machu Picchu: Choosing Your Circuit and Planning the Journey
Machu Picchu’s terraces and stone buildings become even more compelling when you begin to understand how the site fits the mountain. The fam...
Guelta d’Archei, Chad: Water and Life in the Ennedi Desert
Between high sandstone walls, camels gather at a ribbon of dark water. Guelta d’Archei is one of those photographs that changes a simple ide...
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Meteora Travel Guide: Monasteries, Views and a Slower Visit
At Meteora, the first question may be how anything was built up there. Monasteries sit above immense rock pillars, with wooded ground and o...
Palau’s Rock Islands: Choosing a Beautiful Day on the Water
From above, Palau’s Rock Islands look like green cushions scattered across a turquoise lagoon. At water level, the same landscape becomes a ...
Kaiping Diaolou: Towers, Villages and a Different China Trip
In Kaiping, an ornate tower can rise above a rice field with a façade that seems to belong to several architectural worlds at once. Balconie...